PrepUS History
2014 Midterm Exam
Study Guide
Suggestions for studying for your Midterm exam:
1.
Find a quiet place without distractions for you to study.
2.
Assemble the homework, handouts, and notes you completed during the first semester.
3.
Go through the list of information below and identify the items you know and the items you don’t
know.
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Check off the items you know in the list – you don’t need to study them again!
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Highlight the items in the list you DON’T know – these are the ones you need to look up!
4.
Write out identifications for the items you don’t know. Use flashcards, write them out, type them,
use an online study aide like “Quizlet” – whatever works best for you!
5.
Quiz yourself or have someone else quiz you on the items you didn’t initially know at least once
the night before the exam.
6.
PLEASE TAKE NOTE: If you write out identifications of the items you don’t know right now
on your study guide, you will most likely earn a higher score on your exam!
7.
Your Midterm Exam date:
Orange 1-2 Class:
Wednesday, January 22nd
Black 5-6 Class:
Thursday, January 23rd
8:00-9:30
8:00-9:30
You should know the locations on the following maps:
13 Colonies Map
Western Land Claims map
LA Purchase Map
You should be able to identify/describe/explain the following:
Unit 1 - Colonial Era
Land Bridge theory
maize
adobe houses
pueblos
Iroquois
Inuit
Kwaikutl
Sioux
longhouse
mantas
Christopher Columbus
Columbian Exchange
Ponce de Leon
Hernando Cortes
Tenochtitlan
Francisco Coronado
Bartolome de las Casas
Robert de LaSalle
King Henry VIII
Protestant Reformation
English Reformation
Sir Walter Raleigh
Roanoke Island Colony
“The Lost Colony”
joint-stock company
Virginia Company
Jamestown
Captain John Smith
Powhatan
Pocahontas
“starving time”
John Rolfe
tobacco
Puritans
Separatists
Church of England
Anglican Church
Pilgrims
the Mayflower
Plymouth Colony
Captain Myles Standish
Mayflower Compact
Massachusetts Bay Colony
franchise
Anne Hutchinson
antinomianism
Roger Williams
Rhode Island
Reverend Thomas Hooker
the Fundamental Orders
Henry Hudson
Duke of York
New Netherlands
New Amsterdam
New York
Delaware
New Jersey
Quakers
William Penn
French and Indian War
Ohio Company
George Washington
General Braddock
Fort Duquesne
William Pitt
Treaty of Paris, 1763
agriculture
subsistence farming
Pennsylvania Dutch (Amish)
plantation system
cash crop
indigo
planter aristocracy
yeoman farmers
indentured servants
Triangle Trade
Middle Passage
New York Slave Revolt
Stono Rebellion
Unit 2 - The American Revolution
“No Taxation Without Representation”
“the shot heard 'round the world”
1763 Treaty of Paris
1783 Treaty of Paris
British advantages/disadvantages
Patriots advantages/disadvantages
Albany Congress
Albany Plan of Union
Battle of Bunker “Breed’s” Hill
Battle of Long Island
Battle of Princeton
Battle of Saratoga
Battle of Trenton
Battle of Yorktown
Ben Franklin
Benedict Arnold
Boston Massacre
Boston Tea Party
Coercive / Intolerable Acts
Committees of Correspondence
Continentals
Declaration and Resolves
Declaration of Independence
First Continental Congress
French aid to the colonists
French and Indian War
George Rogers Clark
George Washington
Hessians
women in the Revolution
African Americans in the Revolution
Native Americans in the Revolution
James Armistead (Lafayette)
John Adams
John Hancock
July 4, 1776
Lexington and Concord
Loyalists
Marquis de Lafayette
Minutemen
Molly Pitcher
Olive Branch Petition
Patriots
Proclamation of 1763
Quartering Act
Quebec Act
salutary neglect
Second Continental Congress
Sons of Liberty
Spain’s involvement in the Revolution
Stamp Act
Sugar Act
tariff
the Association
The Declaration of the Causes and
Necessity of Taking Up Arms
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Paine’s Common Sense
Townshend Acts
Trade and Navigation Acts
treatment of Loyalists during/after the
Revolution
Valley Forge, Pennsylvania
Unit 3 - Constitution and Voting
Articles of Confederation
fears of a strong central government
the main weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation
state representation under the Articles of
Confederation
the Land Ordinance of 1785
the Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Shays’ Rebellion
Constitution
the House of Representatives
term length, minimum age
citizenship and residency requirements
how their numbers are determined
their leader: name and selection process
their powers and role in impeachment
the Senate
term length, minimum age
citizenship and residency requirements
how their numbers are determined
their leader: name and selection process
their powers and role in impeachment
the President
term length, minimum age
citizenship and residency requirements
their powers
how they are chosen (Electoral College)
the Supreme Court
term length, powers, and appointment
process
when elections are held
the house of Congress tax bills originate in
how a bill becomes a law
writ of habeas corpus, bill of attainder, ex post facto
the 27 Amendments
the Philadelphia (Constitutional) Convention
the Virginia Plan/the New Jersey Plan
the Great Compromise/Three-Fifths Compromise
the Ratification Struggle
Federalists/Anti-Federalists/Federalist Papers
the Bill of Rights: why was it added, what they are
separation of powers/checks and balances
Other
the names of Maine’s Senators and Representatives
voting information
November’s ballot questions
Unit 4 - The New Nation
Washington’s cabinet
Jefferson:Secretary of State
Hamilton:Secretary of the Treasury
Knox:Secretary of War
Bank of the US
assumption; funding at par
special deal – new capital location
loose/strict construction
Whiskey Rebellion
Washington’s Farewell Address
Election of 1796
XYZ Affair
Alien & Sedition Acts
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
Election of 1800
12th Amendment
Marbury v. Madison
“midnight judges;” Chief Justice John Marshall;
judicial review
the Louisiana Purchase
Lewis and Clark, Sacagawea
impressment
Chesapeake, Leopard
Embargo Act
Non-Intercourse Act
War Hawks
Macon’s Bill #2
“Mr. Madison’s War”
Battle of Baltimore
Capitol & White House burning
“Star Spangled Banner”
Francis Scott Key
Battle of New Orleans
Hartford Convention
Treaty of Ghent
Rush-Bagot Treaty (1817)
Convention of 1818
Monroe Doctrine (1823)
nationalism
American System/Henry Clay
Cumberland Road, Erie Canal
sectionalism
Missouri Compromise (Maine)
Election of 1824/“Corrupt Bargain”
John Quincy Adams
12th Amendment
Hudson River School
the “Common Man”
Election of 1828
mudslinging
Jackson’s “kitchen cabinet”
spoils system
Indian Removal Act (1830)
Trail of Tears, Cherokee
Tariff of Abominations (1828)
the “Eaton Affair”
Manifest Destiny
Aroostook War
“Lumberjack War”
Webster-Ashburton Treaty
Mesabi Range
Mexican independence
Stephen Austin
Santa Anna
the Alamo
Sam Houston
California
James K. Polk
Rio Grande
Nueces River
Mexican-American War
Abraham Lincoln
“Spot Resolution”
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Gadsden Purchase